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It underwent structural and compositional analysis using various techniques, including X-ray diffraction, Rietveld analysis, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry, and selected-area electron diffraction.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
In studying philosophy, we need to get used to the possibility that our inductively derived beliefs could be wrong.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
In other cases she inductively reasons the meaning of a word after noticing it in different contexts.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Using a process called inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the device then identifies the shaving’s atomic makeup by the light it emits, like a tiny, dying supernova.
From The Verge ● Jun. 25, 2018
"The conditions"—to use a phrase of Emerson's—"are hard but equal": and at their best, the realist, working inductively, and the romantic, working deductively, are equally able to present the truth of fiction.
From Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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